Tag: Mixed Voices

O viridissima virga, ave,
que in ventoso flabro sciscitationis
sanctorum prodisti.

Cum venit tempus quod tu floruisti
in ramis tuis,
ave, ave fuit tibi, quia calor solis
in te sudavit
sicut odor balsam.

Nam in te floruit
pulcher flos qui odorem dedit
omnibus aromatibus que arida erant.

Et illa apparuerunt omnia in viriditate plena.

Unde celi dederunt rorem super gramen
et omnis terra leta facta est,
quoniam viscera ipsius frumentum
protulerunt et quoniam volucres celi nidos in ipsa habuerunt.

Deinde facta est esca hominibus
et gaudium magnum epulantium.
Unde, o suavis Virgo, in te non deficit ullum gaudium.

Hec omnia Eva contempsit.

Nunc autem laus sit Altissimo.

O branch of freshest green, O hail!
Within the windy gusts of saints upon a quest you swayed and sprouted forth.

When it was time, you blossomed
in your boughs –
“Hail, hail!” you heard, for in you
seeped the sunlight’s warmth
like balsam’s sweet perfume.

For in you bloomed so beautiful a flow’r, whose fragrance wakened
all the spices from their dried-out stupor.

And they appeared in full viridity.

Then rained the heavens dew upon the grass and all the earth was cheered,
for from her womb she brought forth fruit
and for the birds up in the sky have
nests in her.

Then was prepared that food for humankind, the greatest joy of feasts!
O Virgin sweet, in you can ne’er fail any
joy.

All this Eve chose to scorn.

But now, let praise ring forth unto the Highest!

O vis eternitatis
que omnia ordinasti in corde tuo,
per Verbum tuum omnia creata sunt
sicut voluisti,
et ipsum Verbum tuum
induit carnem
in formatione illa
que educta est de Adam.

Et sic indumenta ipsius
a maximo dolore
abstersa sunt.

O quam magna est benignitas Salvatoris,
qui omnia liberavit
per incarnationem suam,
quam divinitas exspiravit
sine vinculo peccati.

Et sic indumenta ipsius
a maximo dolore
abstersa sunt.

Gloria Patri et Filio
et Spiritui sancto.

Et sic indumenta ipsius
a maximo dolore
abstersa sunt.

O power within Eternity:
All things you held in order in your heart,
and through your Word were all created according to your will.
And then your very Word
was clothed
within that form of flesh
from Adam born.

And so his garments were
washed and cleansed
from greatest suffering.

How great the Saviour’s goodness is!
For he has freed all things
by his own Incarnation, which divinity breathed forth
unchained by any sin.

And so his garments were
washed and cleansed
from greatest suffering.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit.

And so his garments were
washed and cleansed
from greatest suffering.

O clarissima
mater sancte medicine,
tu ungenta
per sanctum Filium tuum
infudisti
in plangentia vulnera mortis,
que Eva edificavit
in tormenta animarum.
Tu destruxisti mortem,
edificando vitam.

Ora pro nobis
ad tuum natum,
stella maris, Maria.

O vivificum instrumentum
et letum ornamentum
et dulcedo omnium deliciarum,
que in te non deficient.

Ora pro nobis
ad tuum natum,
stella maris, Maria.

Gloria Patri et Filio
et Spiritui sancto.

Ora pro nobis
ad tuum natum,
stella maris, Maria.

O radiant bright,
O mother of a holy medicine,
your ointments
through your holy Son
you’ve poured
upon the plangent wounds of death,
by Eve constructed
as torture chambers of the soul.
This death you have destroyed
by building life.

Pray for us
to your child,
O sea star Mary.

O instrument of life
and joyful ornament,
and sweetener of all delights,
that in you will not fail.

Pray for us
to your child,
O sea star Mary.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit.

Pray for us
to your child,
O sea star Mary.

Ave Maria, gratia plena
Dominus tecum;
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with thee;
Blessed art thou amongst women,
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.